RFC Tracker

Adds Time\Instant for a single point in time and a Time\Clock interface you can swap out in tests.

Ends the PHP project's official endorsement of PEAR as a component framework and distribution system.

Makes bindec(), octdec(), hexdec() and base_convert() throw an Exception on invalid characters instead of ignoring them.

Adds IntlRelativeDateTimeFormatter for localized strings like "3 days ago" and "next Sunday".

Adds a PREG_THROW_ON_ERROR flag so preg_* functions throw on bad patterns or bad UTF-8 instead of returning false.

Adds an engine-level scheduler on top of Fibers so async libraries can share one concurrency model.

Bundles a user_cache extension for keeping userland data in memory across requests.

Adds a left-to-right assignment operator to end long pipe chains by assigning the result.

Makes HTML markup a first-class PHP expression you can compose, return and pass around.

Adds an opt-in mode where unqualified function and constant names stop falling back to the global namespace.

Lets a class declare constructor parameters in its header, lifting property promotion out of __construct().

Adds grapheme_mask() for masking sensitive data safely in multibyte and emoji-heavy strings.

Allows specific literal values such as 1 or "draft" as types, like the existing true and false types.

Makes closures declared in constant expressions serializable by referencing the code that declares them.

Sets up working groups to own the PHP project's operational side, like infrastructure and releases.

A policy for how the PHP project runs its social media and marketing communications.

Adds friend classes that may access another class's protected members.

A closure variant for callbacks that run inside the function that defines them, with access to its variables.

Adds MariaDB-specific features to mysqlnd and mysqli.

An official, rolling php-community release that ships experimental features ahead of regular PHP versions.